It is another quintessential election year in Connecticut. In 2026 both legal and illegal voters will be voting for the same five current Socialist Democrat United States Representatives and all of the State offices from Governor down to the General Assembly. And what an election it is going to be! And Connecticut is officially up and running with no man safe as the Legislature has been gaveled into session. In listening to the corrupt Socialist Democrat Governor Ned Lamont's State of the State address, one wonders what state he lives in. It is quite clear to any rational observer that Lamont and his fellow Democrats have done an excellent job in driving Connecticut into economic oblivion, and his current budget will help cement Connecticut into a bottom five lowest ranking economic state in the country for more years to come. And his speech was the usual anti-Trump, anti-ICE rhetoric that defines the Democrat Party in 2026. But no one tied to Lamont seems to care. If you happen to disagree with this Democrat disaster looking for a place to happen you are either 1) racist, 2) white supremacist, 3) hostile, 4) insurrectionist, or 5) any combination of more than one of the items listed above. And in the eyes of the government, you should be rendered inoperative on general principles.
I highly recommend all Connecticut voters read Lamont's speech (https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/read the full text connecticut gov ned lamont gives 2026 state of the state address/?ipid=promo link block2), and draw your own conclusions. (All quotes below are from his speech)
Many will feel it is an insult to Thomas Paine who wrote the revolutionary commentary "Common Sense" back in 1776 when Lamont stated, "He was what we would call today a social influencer. His pamphlets were handed out by the hundreds of thousands. His call to revolution was debated from taverns in Windsor to coffeehouses in Fairfield. By the end of that year, 1776, his optimism was tempered by hard times. Paine concluded, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Two hundred and fifty years later, we find ourselves once again in times that try men’s souls. Masked federal agents have descended on Minneapolis, terrorizing communities, tearing families apart. Two young Americans, a mom and an ICU nurse shot dead. Some of our folks worry that another government shutdown and sudden federal cuts will mean no dinner tonight, no roof over their head, too expensive to take care of a sick child. These are times that try men’s souls." Sorry Ned, but your comparison of Thomas Paine and our American Revolution to today's Anti ICE protests protecting criminal illegal immigrants from deportation is a gross insult to our forefathers of our country.
He added: “Because we have used Connecticut common sense, we have been able to make up for some of the harsh cuts coming out of The White House. We were among the very first to backstop food support for working families. We saw the scared faces and long lines at the food pantries just a few months ago.” So Ned, why does the Head of Connecticut Foodshare Jason Jakubowski make over $400,000 a year? Couldn't that $400,000 feed the many starving people of your economically vibrant state? What about the other bulbous salaries paid to non-job executives in the redundant and covert nonprofits funded by state dollars as the “poor mouth” cries get louder? How does this form of racketeering help the poor and vulnerable? (Rest assured anyone asking the question I just asked is automatically branded to be any one or more of the pejorative epithets mentioned above).
But who are you to question results? Says Ned: "The Connecticut economy is strong, for now. We have faster economic growth (fourth highest in the country last quarter), more new business startups, and lower unemployment than most of the nation all of which contributes to higher state income, and that allows our 2027 budget to increase investments in education, housing, and nonprofits not to mention our emergency reserve. " ... "Every year we have worked to make life a little less expensive and a little more affordable. Working families earn a little more, surely helps. Remember cheering on the essential workers during COVID? Many of them were earning the minimum wage, which today is almost $17 an hour, up from about $10 since we took office. And after receiving no increase for several years, our state employees have received a wage increase every year we’ve been in office. We appreciate your extraordinary work, and tell your friends we still need more nurses, corrections officers, and state police. We were told by the naysayers that a higher wage would crash the economy, instead a little more money in your pocket is allowing more families to get back on their feet and our economy to prosper." If the economy is so strong then why are there long lines at the food pantries? Why aren’t you crediting President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for sending short-lived Defense projects to Connecticut? What will you do when that ends? What will you do when the last five or six billionaires leave the state? Does State employee salaries, benefits and pensions account for over 20% of the state budget now? Aren't several of your state "nonprofits" currently under federal investigation for fraud? Have you taken one step towards curbing the myriad governance and out of control spending abuse to these "nonprofits" via the Department of Economic and Community Development? Of course, no steps have been undertaken on any of the above, (and by asking these questions I am sure a race-based pejorative epithet is waiting for me).
But this odd and twisted world is takes some funny turns. Lamont, now being influenced by the left-wing part of his party has turned into a Caucasian version of Huey Newton and will now give every school student a "free" breakfast and as always more money for education. Per Ned: “We tried last year, let’s try it again this year our budget provides for free school breakfasts for all of our students. Everybody starts the day right. No shame, no stigma, no empty stomachs. Connecticut has one of the best school systems in the country, but that is not true of all of our schools. In the coming days I will sign an executive order to create the Blue-Ribbon Commission on K-12 Education. A bottoms up look at education with a focus on an updated funding strategy, the foundation grant, and making sure more resources go to the classroom.” So where does the money come from to pay for these "free school breakfast" programs? Your IPO profits from SEMA 4? Some new “Ned Deal” funneled through “Connecticut Innovations?” A new "breakfast tax"? Don't most schools in the state already offer both free breakfast and lunch for needy students? Couldn't the state save money and take out feminine hygiene products out of boys’ bathrooms in state schools? (This last statement now qualifies me to be called pejorative epithets not suitable for a respectable article).
Contrary to the deluded Governor, Connecticut still has $100 to $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt with interest thereupon, along with massive unfunded liabilities. To help voters forget about these horrors, Ned proposes to give every taxpayer a $200 tax rebate, or a $400 rebate per family. Rough estimates are that this pseudo-feel-good maneuver will cost the state $500 million dollars. But why hasn't Connecticut still recovered from the recession of 1989? As I stated in January 2026; “The true reality is that Connecticut still suffers from many of the same problems it has faced since 1989. The economy in particular is consistently ignored and overlooked, as it has been for more than 35 years. Connecticut has never recovered economically since that recession of 1988-89. According to the September jobs report published in December, Connecticut is losing jobs. The state ranks 50th in payroll growth from 1989 to 2025 and is one of only three states that have failed to fully recover from the Great Recession”. (https://swickspeak.blogspot.com/2026/01/connecticut economy stinks so let’s make.html)
But as ridiculous and horrible as this all is, one quote from Ned takes the prize for buying the liberal vote: "That young mother shot twice in the head in Minneapolis the White House called her a domestic terrorist; she reminded me of my daughter. " Ned does your daughter protest at anti ICE demonstrations and tries to drive into them with her SUV while they are doing their job? If so, you have a lot of problems with your family that certainly you are not letting on about.
This State of the State speech summarizes the true lies and deceptions that the Connecticut Democrat Party has been so well known for, for many years. Year in and year out, state spending and debt increases. Year in and year out Connecticut's economy ranks last and or in the bottom five in the country in economic growth, development, business friendliness, etc. Year in and year out Connecticut ranks as one of the highest taxed states in the country. Maybe this year Connecticut taxpayers will wake up to see that they are not better off than they were in any year from 1989 to 2026 with a government dominated by an omnipotent and corrupted Connecticut Democrat Party and they will finally see through the false claims, lies and prevarications leading Connecticut to be the economic and social disaster that it now is.
